Published March 1996
Theme: Love Gone Bad
“In honor of the recent passing of Valentine’s Day, our perverse theme is love gone bad. [We have] an over-dependent son of an over-protective mother, a murderer haunted by his dead girlfriend’s helpfulness, a ghost couple who really burn up two living lovers, and a dreamer who finds his dream-girl in an unusual place.”
- D. R. McBride, “Sollie”
- Jamie Meyers, “to the narcoleptic shrink” (poem)
- Mark McLaughlin, “What Not to Name the Cat” (poem)
- Todd Powell, “Twenty-Six Feet of Yellow”
- W. Gregory Stewart, “bartalk/49” (poem)
- John Grey, “Post Card from the Desert” (poem)
- Chris Kenworthy, “Blue Glass”
- Judy Klass, “The Passing” (poem)
- J. Spencer Dreischarf, “The Book Lovers’ Tale”
- Brian Maycock, “Ghosts” (poem)
- Ray Nickford, “Nanny’s Friends”
- W. Gregory Stewart, “we trek the sea of souls” (poem)
- Andrew Hook, “The Release”
- Mary Winters, “Her Cast with a Lacy Bow” (poem)
- Bob Cook, “Isolation Wedding Suite” (poem)
- Artists: David Grilla (cover), Cathy Buburuz, Alan Casey, GAK, Alex Nathan Shumate, A. R. Klosterman